Josephine Preston Peabody White Poems

• 1. The Prophet
  All day long he kept the sheep:--
  Far and early, from the crowd,
  On the hills from steep to steep,
  Where the silence cried aloud;
  ...
• 2. The Long Lane
  All through the summer night, down the long lane in flower,
  The moon-white lane,
  All through the summer night,--dim as a shower,
  Glimmer and fade the Twain:
  ...
• 3. Canticle Of The Babe
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  Over the broken world, the dark gone by,
  Horror of outcast darkness torn with wars;
  ...
• 4. The Foundling
  Beautiful Mother, I have toiled all day;
  And I am wearied. And the day is done.
  Now, while the wild brooks run
  Soft by the furrows--fading, gold to gray,
  ...
• 5. The Nightingale Unheard
  Yes, Nightingale, through all the summer-time
  We followed on, from moon to golden moon;
  From where Salerno day-dreams in the noon,
  And the far rose of Pæstum once did climb.
  ...
• 6. The Enchanted Sheepfold
  The hills far-off were blue, blue,
  The hills at hand were brown;
  And all the herd-bells called to me
  As I came by the down.
  ...
• 7. The Cloud
  The islands called me far away,
  The valleys called me home.
  The rivers with a silver voice
  Drew on my heart to come.
  ...

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